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Community leaders hope to conduct 60 small group meetings in July to gather public comment on how to spend the $17 million-plus coming to the city and county.
There didn’t appear to be a lot of agreement Tuesday evening as the Reno County Commission took a first look at proposed wind energy regulations forwarded to it by the county’s planning board – starting with how to proceed in reviewing them.
County Commission Chairman Ron Hirst proposed that the board walk through the 14-page document a paragraph at a time and discuss proposed changes – of which he offered several.
Commissioner Ron Sellers indicated he wanted to familiarize himself with the proposal and learn why the planning commission made specific recommendations, but he wasn’t prepared to discuss any changes.
Hermes wraps up 28 years as Youth Services Director
Reno County Youth Services Director Bill Hermes shared a few numbers with the Reno County Commission one last time on Tuesday.
Hermes, 57, is retiring from the position after 28 years, and the place he’s worked since 1989. He’s presented annual or quarterly reports to the commission for years.
Over those years, Hermes estimated, some 13,700 youth have been placed in the county’s youth shelter, more than 14,000 come through detention and 22,000 through intake and assessment.
“We’re definitely touching lives there,” Hermes said. “I want everyone to understand it’s the employees there that make it great. I’m only as good as the people I surrounded myself with and I was lucky to have people who’d chosen to work there as a mission in life and stuck with it through the most difficult times.”